140 Birthday Quotes

"Don't regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it."
Catherine Pulsifer

"To me a birthday means celebrating the presence of an individual in our lives."
Meena Bajaj

"Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!"
Nicky Gumbel

"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It's okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
William Barclay

"There are many gifts that we give through the course of a year, and some of these are for special people in our lives as well as for many friends and family. Sometimes, these gifts are really no more than an acknowledgement of friendship, or those given to commemorate a special day like a wedding anniversary or a birthday."
Byron Pulsifer, Gift of Love

"Life isn't about your age. Life is about living. So when your birthday comes be thankful for the year that has just past and anticipate with a happy heart what the coming year will bring."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Your birthday is my pleasure. You are my sweetest treasure."
Danny Demeersseman. More than 300 Wishes for Birthday Greetings

"A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy."
Abhishek Bachchan

"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again."
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

"There are two attitudes you can have when it comes to your birthday:
1. be thankful you have lived another year.
or, 2. complain about being a year older."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Live everyday like your birthday and drive your life with all varieties of appreciation. A life live with thanksgiving every day is never tired of being lived again and again!"
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

"Our hope this year, for you my dear, is a year of happiness and joy. May the coming year bring all you dream of and more!"
Catherine Pulsifer

"How you celebrate your partner's birthday will tell them a lot about what they mean to you, and how important the relationship is to you."
Denise Brienne, 250 Romantic Ideas For Couples: Volume 1

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
George Meredith

"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."
Lauren Hutton

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
Cherokee Expression

"Birthdays are inevitable, beautiful and very particular moments in our lives! Moments that bring precious memories back, celebrate the present times and give hope for the future."
Bsbr Arish, Birthday wishes

"Today you are another year older, and we know how fast time flys as we get older, therefore, live each day and be happy!"
Kate Summers

"Each new year of life added to your past, changing the way you viewed every new day, influencing how you reacted to everything from the simplest daily routines to complex events touching you, your family, and the world you lived in."
Paul Snyder, Love: In Search of a Reason for Living

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"Your age isn't you. Use today to feel your best, celebrate and be your very happiest."
M. Rivers

"A birthday is not a day to fear. It is a day to celebrate and look forward to the coming year."
Byron Pulsifer

"Indeed, birthdays are special days that mark the growth and accomplishment we have made in the year past, and for more to come in the upcoming year."
Kate S

"A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It's the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year."
Claudia T Hudson

"Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely."
Author Unknown

"A milestone birthday usually means taking the time to consider your life, your goals and what you have accomplished or not accomplished in your life up to this point."
Jenny Mays

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Franz Kafka

"Select a personal quote to put on birthday and holiday cards to your family and friends. Share the positivity and inspiration."
Ellen Young, Inspirational Quotes: 365 Greatest Motivational Quotes

"A child whose birthday is coming up is so excited, they count down the days. But as we get older we seem to lose the excitement. We need to rethink and be happy we have reached another birthday."
Theodore W. Higginsworth

"Don't worry about another birthday, let the best of life has to offer, be your focus! After all none of us knows what tomorrow will bring, live for today, recognize and appreciate the years you have had!"
Theodore W. Higginsworth

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucile Ball

"Birthdays are among the most awaited day for children since it evokes fun and games that they can enjoy with their family and friends."
Hal Jordan, Birthday Party Ideas and Party Supplies on a Budget

"Wishing is always an expression of scarcity and despite what your parents told you when inviting you to blow out the candles on your birthday cake, wishes are never granted when they come from a point of scarcity."
Craig Beck, How to Attract Money

"Birthdays come but once a year, celebrate and be of good cheer."
Robert Rivers

"You don't get older, you get better."
Shirley Bassey

Each year as our birthday comes, our thoughts and beliefs may change a bit
from year to year. But believe our wish for you is always the same, may
you find happiness and blessings all of your days!
Catherine Pulsifer

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
Robert Staughton Lynd

"If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?"
Joy Page

"My life is better with every year of living it."
Rachel Maddow

"Birthdays mean going through another year of one's life. It means growing another year older. For me, human birth is the purpose of Gods realization. A birthday simply means another year to complete that goal that we were sent to achieve."
Mr. Benjamin

"Another year has passed, a birthday for you is in store.
May you find this coming year be one with lots of open doors."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Did you know the birthday cake dates back to the ancient Romans? Or that the birthday song started off as a school song?"
Madison Matthews, Children's Book About Birthdays

"Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories."
Buddy Valastro

"What is special about your birthday?
It is like Christmas and New Years all rolled into one.
You get gifts to open and inspire you so
To celebrate your birth that happened, oh so long ago."
Catherine Pulsifer

"If we kept a journal and each year on our birthday we wrote the most significant thing that occurred in our life, and what we learned from this, then we would have a legacy to pass on to our children."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Don't wait for birthdays or holidays. Sometimes the most wonderful gifts are the unexpected ones."
Candy Paull, The Heart of Abundance: A Simple Guide to Appreciating and Enjoying Life

"Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come."
Lucy Larcom

"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
Sammy Hagar

"Time is a precious commodity. If you have not been enlightened to this actuality in your youth, you most certainly will in old age."
Adam Jacobs, Wealth, Wisdom, Freedom

"A lot of adults ignore their birthdays and wouldn't know what to do to celebrate if asked but let's face it; adults enjoy parties as much as kids do!"
Inga Marlston, 30th Birthday Ideas

"Birthdays can cause angst for those in a relationship, because you just want to get it done right. And it doesn't matter if you are in a long term relationship or just starting out. How you celebrate your partner's birthday will tell them a lot about what they mean to you, and how important the relationship is to you."
Denise Brienne, 250 Romantic Ideas For Couples: Volume 2

"I love to celebrate my children's birthdays, but I don't really like planning birthday parties."
Sarah Williams, Cupcakes On A Tuesday: Sweet Relief For The Early Years Of Motherhood

"Too many people get hung up on having quote unquote 'traditional birthdays'. The truth is there is no such thing as a traditional birthday; whatever makes a great day for your child is all that matters."
Mr. FundaFun, Birthday Party Tips And Suggestions To Make Your 1-8 Year Old's Day Amazing

"Just remember, once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed."
Charles Schulz

"When people ask me my age, I tell them it is unlisted just like my phone number. Perhaps this birthday year it may be a good idea for you to unlist your number."
Kate Summers

"A birthday comes but once a year and we don't want you to shed a tear. Here's to you on your special day, your a living legend we do say."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays - - everybody's got one. Most kids wish they had more. Older people wish they had fewer and find them a bore."
Sally Huss, Let's Celebrate

"I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now."
Author Unknown

"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Satchel Paige

"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it."
Author Unknown

"When a man has a birthday he takes a day off, but when a woman has a birthday she takes a year off."
Author Unknown

"It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are."
Raymond A. Michel

"Youth thinks not of the future
For it's so brash and gay
And that time of life when it is gone
All seems so far away."
Donald King, The Fraud Called Youth

"The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet."
Robert Orben

"Keep your enthusiasm and forget your birthday is a good formula for youth."
Author Unknown

"Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?"
Bobby Kelton

"The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love."
Jean Renoir

"How do you find out what a person wants for Christmas or a birthday? Make them think you already bought a gift and ask them to guess what it is. Their top three guesses are usually three things that they want."
David Fletcher Chase, Manipulate Anyone

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."
Gloria Pitzer

"What is a birthday without a cake, at least one candle burning on it, and a huddle of well-wishers, wearing clownish hats, singing in their ragged, hoary voices?"
Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
John Glenn

"Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."
C.E.M. Joad

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."
Larry Lorenzoni

"Happy Birthday to my Brother! I like it when people ask if we're related. That means there's still an element of doubt."
Phil Bolsta, How to Write Humorous Greeting Cards

"Birthdays don't come easy. They just come every year."
Danielle Duckery, Words For The Occasion: Sentiments and Well Wishes

"Age is a relative term. All my relatives keep reminding me how old I am."
Melanie White

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
Dr. Seuss

"Artificial intelligence is a wonderful thing. I told my computer that today is my birthday, and it said that I need an upgrade."
Author Unknown

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."
English Proverb

"A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it."
R. C. Ferguson

"Look at the positive side: at least you're not as old as you will be next year."
Author Unknown

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Jack Benny

"To me old age is 15 years older than I am."
Bernard M. Baruch

"My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is."
Tripp Evans

Birthday Quotes For Friend

"In other words, live vicariously, beautifully, and excitingly, discover, love, dare and act as there is nothing to lose."
Andy Hertz, Life, The Best Birthday Gift

"Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness."
Debasish Mridha

"A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you, my friend, is a great year full of happiness and sunshine!"
Catherine Pulsifer

"May your years be counted not by your age
but by how you spend your days."
Catherine Pulsifer

"You are a very special person to us and on this day you were born we are remind of the unique and wonderful person that you are. Our wish is for a very Happy Birthday to celebrate this day."
Kate Summers

"An angel you have been to me. Today, on this special day I want you to know how much you are loved and appreciated every day of the year. Happy Birthday."
Catherine Pulsifer

"A birthday is a day that brings
Much celebration and so we sing,
A very Happy Birthday to You
Our life would not be complete without You."
Catherine Pulsifer

"A friend of my was having a birthday and I was looking for a quote that expressed my feelings for this very special person. As I read the many different thoughts on friendship and different interpretations of what a friend is I realized my friend was someone who stays with me no matter what the situation, they can be count on not just in the good times but more especially in the bad times."
Catherine Pulsifer, What Is a Friend

A special person you are to me, you deserve the best of everything. So may this birthday and the coming year be one that offers you the best that life may bring.
Kate Summers

"God created you in a unique special kind of way. . . so that is why I believe that you are a very special person!"
M Girouard

"Happiness may come from some achievement, whether big or small, a sense of self-empowerment at work or in a social setting or a pleasant gesture like a birthday surprise from family and friends."
Amit Ahlawat, Seven Ways To Sustained Happiness

"May the love of family surround, the enthusiasm of friends be with you, and the joy of another year to look forward be foremost in your thoughts on this day of your birthday."
Author Unknown

"You bring happiness into my life. And on this birthday my wish and hope is that you are happy today."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Have you ever considered that your birthday is truly a day of celebration? A day to recognize the special gift we all received on the day you were born; the gift of you. You are appreciated, you are loved. As another year begins for you may you be filled with the thoughts of how special you are to all of us! Thank you for sharing your life with us."
Robert Rivers

"Another year comes to a close, and another begins. May the coming year be one that will be filled with laughter of friends, love of family, and the life that you dream of."
Catherine Pulsifer

"May you receive many gifts, and may your day be joyous, and best of all may you be surrounded by family and friends. May all you wish for come true."
Theodore W. Higginsworth

Famous Birthday Quotes To Inspire

"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred."
Thomas Edison

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
Oprah Winfrey

"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
Paris Hilton

"Live everyday like your birthday and drive your life with all varieties of appreciation. A life live with thanksgiving every day is never tired of being lived again and again!"
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

"Birth, every human birth, is an occasion for local wonder. In Jesus' birth the wonder is extrapolated across the screen of all creation and all history as a God-birth. 'The Word became flesh and dwelt among us' - moved into the neighborhood, so to speak."
Eugene Peterson

"No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old."
Jack Benny

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
Jeremiah 29:11

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
Francis Bacon

"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."
Richard Bach

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn

"From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye."
William Butler Yeats

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
Jean Paul Richter

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Jonathan Swift

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
George Harrison

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."
Charles Lamb

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eye'd, such seems your beauty still."
William Shakespeare